Reaching InDesign’s limits when importing XML
Late 2013 Mac Pro (3.5 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon E5, 16 GB 1866 MHz DDR3, AMD FirePro D500 3072MB, Mojave 10.14.2)
2017 iMac Pro (2.3 GHz Intel Xeon W, 64GB 266 MHz DDR4, Radeon Pro Vega 64 16GB, Mojave 10.14.4)
InDesign CC 2019
Steps to reproduce the issues:
- Create XML file (8k lines) to import copy into InDesign with tags and linking to 700+ images (343x343px, CMYK jpegs)
- Create 74pp InDesign template 12 text boxes per page, content flowing, with 50+ paragraph and character styles
- Expected result: Text and images flowing through text boxes, allowing editing and tidying up.
- Actual result: After getting through some pages the software is slows down, beach-balling, the screen goes blue. 50 pages seems to be the maximum it can handle.
- BUG: Even with very powerful Macs with massive processors, graphic cards etc. Producing a book (400+ pages) the XML and the inDesign document needs to be split in files 50pp or less.
I can’t upload samples as files are confidential (annual international publication) and there’s too many. Happy discuss in private and transfer some packaged inDesign files and xml to private and secure location.
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I have a similar issue with ID CC 2020. Files of <20k lines are fine, above ~21k InDesign freezes